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BLACK PANTHER #39 by Jason Aaron and Jefte Palo. Okay, much as I like regular PANTHER scribe Reginald Hudlin, the thought of Jason Aaron, the creator of SCALPED, writing the issue in which the Panther and his kingdom throw down with the Skrull army… Let’s just say it was a “Ledger as Joker Moment.” Highly Recommended. DOOM PATROL ARCHIVES, VOL. 5 HC by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani. The final adventures of the Silver-Age’s strangest team. Collecting issues #114-121. Six-hundred bucks in Near-Mint. A lot cheaper here. Highly Recommended. ELEPHANTMEN VOL. 1: WOUNDED ANIMALS SC by Richard Starkings and Moritat. Collecting the first seven issues of what Publisher’s Weekly calls a “superior dystopian sci-fi tale” and “a lightning-fast but addictive read.” Recommended. ESSENTIAL FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 7 SC by The Guys Who Did FF When I Was a Kid. Collecting issues #138-159, plus two Annuals and more. This one has the first appearance of Madrox the Multiple Man and the wedding of Quicksilver and Crystal. Fun stuff, hours of entertainment, dirt cheap! GREEN LANTERN #33 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis. The adventures of Hal Jordan and his good buddy Sinestro continue. For realz. JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA ANNUAL #1 by Geoff Johns and Jerry Ordway. Power Girl gets her dream come true: Earth-2 lives again! Works for me. MARVEL MASTERWORKS: DEFENDERS VOL. 1 HC by Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, Ross Andru and Sal Buscema. Collecting SUB MARINER #34 & 35, MARVEL FEATURE #1-3, and DEFENDERS #1-6. These comics would set you back almost 800 bucks if you bought them from the back issue bin. Cheaper here. Featuring Doc Strange, Sub-Mariner, the Hulk and the Silver Surfer! Evil don’t stand a chance! Recommended. NEWUNIVERSAL: 1959 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Scott. Warren Ellis’s “hand-picked” protégé writer takes on the history of the New New Universe, making it, in theory, the New New Universe of Old. Anyway, if you can still remember the last issue of NEWUNIVERSAL (early May 2008), there was a guy named Philip Voight who killed superpeople back in the 50s. This is his story. NORTHLANDERS #8 by Brian Wood and Davide Gianfelice. No Skrulls! No Mutants! Just good old fashioned Vikings and Violence! Highly recommended! PREVIEWS by Marvel and Diamond Comics. Start making your holiday wish lists! PROJECT SUPERPOWERS # 5 of 7 by Alex Ross and Company. Souring people on the Golden Age of Comics one issue at a time. REIGN IN HELL #1 of 8 by Keith Giffen and Matt Clark. It’s a battle for the rulership of Hell in the DC Universe. I nominate whoever thought it would be a good idea to keep doing year-long weeklies after “52.” SKRULLS VS POWER PACK #1 of 4 by Fred Van Lente and Cory Hamscher. Wow. Who do you root for here? I root for Van Lente because he did ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! THOR #10 by J. Michael Straczynski and Olivier Coipel. If the pay-off to this story is not something along the lines of “Loki, how stupid do you think we are?” I for one am going to feel let down. Good stuff. Also out this week is the first trade collection featuring issues #1-6. Enjoy! TRINITY #9 by Various Creators. Okay, I hate to say this because some of the creators involved are very talented and/or nice people, but this series is Not Good. DC is asking fans for a total of $155.48 plus local sales taxes over the course of a year for this book and …. No. “52” was worth it. COUNTDOWN and now TRINITY are not. Take the three bucks a week and try a new series, kids. Or save up for a trade collection. SCALPED, NORTHLANDERS, CRIMINAL or (heck, if it has to be capes) why not ASTRO CITY? These are all great books that deserve more support. DC should wrap up TRINITY ten months early and blame the Time-Trapper or something. Un-Recommended. TRUE BELIEVERS #1 of 5 by Cary Bates and Paul Gulacy. A veteran creative team brings us a super-team for the Information Age, a crazy bunch of kids who expose evil on the internets, kind of like MoveOn.Org but with skimpier outfits. There’s a preview on Marvel’s website. Worth a look, but not for younger kids. ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #124 by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen. Ultimate Beetle, I swear to god…. Plus Ultimate Venom is naked. WOLVERINE #67 by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. The imaginary story “Old Man Logan” continues as Hawkeye and Logan head East and Logan tries not to kill people. It’s very entertaining but I still want my money back for “Wanted”, Mr. Millar. Recommended. WOLVERINE ORIGINS #27 by Daniel Way and Stephen Segovia. Balancing out the quality of the main Wolverine title is the transcendent suckiness of this one. Like Yin and Yang, for every Wolverine story employing subtlety and nuance in his character, there is another which invents tranny clones and long-lost sons who are able to have tattoos despite an inherited healing factor which would make tattoos impossible. What is the sound of one hand ripping a bad comic to pieces? Cleansing breaths now. Ommm…. |
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| 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS ADVENTURES OF SINBAD #2 |
| AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EXTRA |
| ARCHIE DIGEST #246 |
| ARMY @ LOVE SC VOL 2 GENERATION PAWNED |
| ART OF SPEED RACER WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SC |
| BATMAN #677 VARIANT RIP |
| BATMAN DEATH MASK #4 (Of 4) |
| BATMAN GOING SANE SC |
| BEYOND WONDERLAND #1 (Of 6) |
| BLACK PANTHER #39 SI |
| BLACK SUMMER #7 |
| BLUE BEETLE #29 |
| CALIBER #4 (Of 5) MULTIPLE COVERS |
| CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 #1 HITCH SKETCH VARIANT |
| CAPTAIN MARVEL HC SECRET INVASION |
| CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #47 |
| CATWOMAN #81 |
| CHAIR SC |
| CHOPPER ZOMBIE SC |
| CLASH SC |
| COMIC BOOK COMICS #2 |
| COMIC SHOP NEWS #1102 |
| CONAN BORN ON THE BATTLEFIELD HC |
| CONTRACT #1 (Of 3) |
| DC SPECIAL CYBORG #3 (Of 5) |
| DEFENDERS MASTERWORKS HC VOL 1 MULTIPLE COVERS |
| DOMO SCULPTED MAGNET |
| DOOM PATROL ARCHIVES HC VOL 5 |
| DRAGONLANCE LEGENDS TIME OF THE TWINS #1 (Of 3) |
| DREADNOUGHT INVASION SIX #4 (Of 4) |
| DYNAMO 5 #15 |
| ELEPHANTMEN SC VOL 1 WOUNDED ANIMALS |
| ESSENTIAL FANTASTIC FOUR SC VOL 7 |
| EXCESS ART OF MICHAEL GOLDEN AND HOW HE DOES IT SC |
| FALL OF CTHULHU SC VOL 2 GATHERING |
| FANTASTIC FOUR TRUE STORY #1 (Of 4) |
| FEMME NOIR DARK CITY DIARIES #2 (Of 4) MULTIPLE COVERS |
| FICTION CLEMENS #3 (Of 3) |
| FRANK FRAZETTAS CREATURES #1 |
| GEEK MONTHLY VOL 2 #8 |
| GHOST WHISPERER #5 |
| GIRL GENIUS HC VOL 7 AGATHA & VOICE OF THE CASTLE |
| GIRLS AND CORPSES MAGAZINE SUMMER 2008 |
| GREEN LANTERN #33 |
| GRENDEL GOD & THE DEVIL SC |
| GRIMM FAIRY TALES #29 |
| GUARDIANS OF GALAXY MUST HAVE |
| HALLOWEEN NIGHTDANCE SC VOL 1 |
| HAUNT OF HORROR LOVECRAFT #2 (Of 3) |
| HERCULES #4 (Of 5) MULTIPLE COVERS |
| HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY ALONE WITH ME SC |
| HULK #4 MCGUINNESS WRAPAROUND VARIANT |
| HUNTRESS YEAR ONE #6 (Of 6) |
| JIM BUTCHERS DRESDEN FILES #4 (Of 4) WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE |
| JOKERS ASYLUM TWO FACE #1 |
| JOURNAL TOKIDOKI KAITEN SUSHI |
| JOURNEY SC VOL 1 |
| JUGHEAD #190 |
| JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA ANNUAL #1 |
| KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #141 |
| KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER SOUND OF FEAR SC |
| LOCKE & KEY #6 |
| MAD MAGAZINE #492 |
| MAN WITH NO NAME #3 |
| MARVEL PREVIEWS AUGUST 2008 |
| MARVEL SPOTLIGHT UNCANNY X-MEN 500 ISSUES |
| MS MARVEL #29 SECRET INVASION |
| MUMBAI MACGUFFIN ONE SHOT |
| MUMMY MOVIE PREQUEL RISE & FALL OF XANGOS AX #4 |
| NARCOPOLIS #4 (Of 4) MULTIPLE COVERS |
| NEW BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON ZERO #11 |
| NEW DYNAMIX #5 (Of 5) |
| NEWUNIVERSAL 1959 |
| NORTHLANDERS #8 |
| NOVA SC VOL 2 KNOWHERE |
| ORDER SC VOL 2 CALIFORNIA DREAMING |
| OVERSTREET PRICE GUIDE BIG BIG VOL 38 |
| PIGEONS FROM HELL #4 (Of 4) |
| PILOT SEASON THE CORE #1 |
| POPGUN SC VOL 2 |
| PREVIEWS ADULT VOL XVIII #8 |
| PREVIEWS VOL XVIII #8 |
| PROJECT SUPERPOWERS #5 (Of 7) |
| PROJECT SUPERPOWERS #5 (Of 7) ROSS VARIANT |
| REIGN IN HELL #1 (Of 8) |
| REIGN IN HELL #1 (Of 8) VARIANT |
| ROBOTS & DONUTS SC |
| SABBATH ALL YOUR SINS REBORN SC VOL 1 THE COLLECTED POGROM |
| SADHU WHEEL OF DESTINY #3 (Of 4) |
| SECRET INVASION FANTASTIC FOUR #3 (Of 3) |
| SECRET INVASION WHO DO YOU TRUST JIMENEZ VARIANT |
| SERPO SC |
| SKAAR SON OF HULK #2 |
| SKRULLS VS POWER PACK #1 (Of 4) |
| SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARCHIVES SC VOL 8 |
| SPIDER-MAN WITH GREAT POWER #5 (Of 5) |
| STAR TREK MIRROR IMAGES #2 |
| STAR TREK YEAR FOUR ENTERPRISE EXPERIMENT #4 |
| STAR WARS REBELLION #15 VECTOR PART 7 (Of 12) |
| STEAL MOON SC VOL 1 (Of 2) |
| SUPERMAN BATMAN #50 |
| SUPERMAN BATMAN #50 VARIANT |
| SUPERNATURAL LAW #45 |
| TALES FROM THE CRYPT #7 |
| TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #51 |
| TEAM 14 ONE SHOT MULTIPLE COVERS |
| TEEN TITANS #61 |
| TEMPLAR ARIZONA SC VOL 2 MOB GOES WILD |
| THOR #10 |
| THOR BY J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI SC VOL 1 |
| TOMARTS ACTION FIGURE DIGEST #167 |
| TRINITY #9 |
| TRUE BELIEVERS #1 (Of 5) |
| ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #124 |
| UN-MEN #12 |
| USAGI YOJIMBO HC VOL 22 TOMOES STORY |
| VICTORIAN SC ACT 04 SELF OVERCOMING |
| WHITE RAPIDS SC |
| WILDCATS #1 |
| WOLVERINE #67 |
| WOLVERINE #67 MCNIVEN SKETCH VARIANT |
| WOLVERINE ORIGINS #27 |
| WONDER WOMAN AME COMI VINYL FIGURE |
| WORKSHOP OF FILTHY CREATION ART OF JOHNNY ACE & KALI VERRA |
| X-MEN FIRST CLASS VOL 2 #14 |
| X-MEN ODD MEN OUT |
| ZOMBIE TALES #3 MULTIPLE COVERS |